Friday 22nd September - day 4 - our 33rd wedding anniversary - Vancouver, Grouse mountain and Bowen Island. Chris persuaded us that we should mark the occasion of our 33rd wedding anniversary not by a lie in but with a dawn run up to the top of Grouse Mountain - the famous 'Grouse Grind'. Grouse mountain lies just north of Vancouver and the route covers 2.9km whilst climbing 853 metres. Although it was early in the morning (7.30) when we arrived, the car park ...

Wednesday 21st September. Day three. To Deep Cove, north shore and Lynn Canyon. Woke before the 7am alarm feeling surprisingly good. Chris had to be at work in Gastown at eight, so time for a very brief beach run (and play on the swings!) Bill had a sumptuous breakfast waiting on our return and Chris set off for work, only slightly hampered by a further flat bike tyre... An hour later, we were on our way east to Deep Cove. After a short detour to Honeys Doug...

Wednesday 20/9/17 - day 2. A day in Vancouver. We slept amazingly well with no trace of jet lag as we drifted awake at 7.00. As we stood up out of bed we discovered the panoramic views of Vancouver from our velum windows - rooftops, sea, ships, sky and mountains! Beautiful! We had planned to meet Chris for breakfast in Kitsilano, but in view of his very short night, we decided to meet him in town. His flat and office are in Gastown, on the eastern side of to...

Tuesday 19/9/17. Day one. Suckley to Kitsilano, Vancouver. We are off on our next adventure - to Canada and then south following the Pacific Coast Highway to San Diego and then west to explore the National parks. Flying to Vancouver from Heathrow at 17.20 this evening. After a pretty much perfect flight with BA (Shoreshank Redemption, Churchill, Hidden Figures...) we arrived at Vancouver on time and queued for a taxi. Bearing up well considering it was 8pm lo...

Our last day! We needed to start early today - our flight from Calgary left at 5pm, meaning a 2pm check in. Breakfast before dawn was a very very cold affair and the poor gas stove struggled to make progress in scrambling the eggs! The glacier gradually became visible in the misty grey morning light. We were on the road by 7.30 and heading south along the Icefields parkway. The skies were cloudier thsn yesterday afternoon, but the secondary continued to amaze...